Ontext switching is nothing but saving the earlier process'
> regisers, address space and loading the next process into the memory
> 
> I think the CPU has to idle time for this amount.

The CPU is not idle during a context  switch . Someone has to  execute the 
code thats doing the context switch :-)

> 
> I think the same for intel but... 
 
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